I’ll have to read this. It’s one of those movies I love that nobody else has heard of.
John MacDonald’s Travis McGee series:
Yup, that’s what I came in to say. Over and over.
Oh, and Owen Meany.
My first Dick Francis was “Reflex.” I’ve re-read it maybe four times (for five readings total.) I’ve also given copies to many friends, to get them hooked. (“First hit is free, kiddo!”)
Dick Francis and Roger Zelazny are the only two authors I’ve read who have mastered the first-person style. I don’t like first-person narration from just about anyone else, but they know (knew) how to do it right.
What’s your opinion of Felix Francis?
As with most movies, it departs quite a bit from the book, but I enjoyed it, as well.
The Fountainhead. I have all the really good parts underlined in my copy. I think it was read #3 when I did that. If anyone wants to borrow it, just PM me.
I’m kinda bummed I didn’t think to color code the underlining. Roark’s cool parts would be underlined in orange (get it???) and Dominique’s would be in ice blue. How cool would that be!?
The Stand. Not sure how many times but I would say around eight or nine times. For several years I would read it every June to correspond with the dates in the novel.
I forgot to mention The Belgariad series by David Eddings. I must have read every book in the series five times between the ages of 13 and 20. When I tried to read them again in my late twenties I realized they were no longer to my taste and I never tried them again. I still like lots of fantasy and young-adult novels I enjoyed as an adolescent, just not those ones.
Like lots of people, I reread fantasy series obsessively as a teenager. In my case, it was The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. I also reread the Well of Souls series by Jack L Chalker repeatedly.
As an adult, I’ve read The Eye of the World (book 1 of the Wheel of Time) 5ish times.
Replay, several times.
Also HHGG.
I liked the books Dick and Felix wrote together.
Felix is getting better. I always look forward to each new book. I may not reread them multiple times like I did Dick’s best books.
Decider and To the Hilt are really good Dick Francis books.
The Travis McGee series is worth re-read. John D. MacDonald is quite unique in his approach to the mystery genre.
I’ve read 9 of the 21 book series. I keep trying to find the time to read the others.
His books are slower reads than Dick Francis. MacDonald has more imagery to think about and absorb.
This duplicates another thread, but why not?
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books
C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series
J.R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – more times than I can recall
…and, of course, the Harvard Lampoon parody Bored of the Rings
Frederick Forsyth’s Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File
most of Dave Barry’s books – good bedside reading
Tom Weller’s Science Made Stupid and Cvltvre Made Stupid
James Lileks’ **The Gallery of Regrettable Food, Gastroanomalies, * and Interior Desecration
The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste
Most of the Paradox Press (DC Comics) The Big Book of ________ series
Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary (really!)
Until this site existed, I used to re-read Cecil Adams’ Straight Dope collections a lot
Most of the Discworld novels. The earlier ones I’ve probably read about five or six times each, though due to time running short and more books coming out, that has happened less often as time has gone on.
Also I think I’ve read Memory Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams four times.
I guess that’s not too many times, really.
Hotel New Hampshire
World According to Garp
The Water-Method Man
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Cider House Rules
Son of the Circus
A Widow for One Year
In my younger years, I read several Stephen King novels several times:
The Stand
The Shining
The Dead Zone
It
Fire Starter
Delores Claybourn
The Body - from Different Seasons
And:
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
I re-read Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge every year, and I’ve re-read Of Human Bondage quite a few times as well. I’ve read Ready Player One a few times already, and I’ve got a collection of Jeeves short stories (The World Of Jeeves) that I dip into fairly often, and I crack up every time.
I don’t often re-read books (or re-watch movies or tv shows or replay video games!) but I never get tired of Alice Munro’s short stories. She has a startling economy of words that just crackles off the page and brings her characters, in all their flawed glory, to life.
I don’t think I’ve ever re-read a book (and seldom watch a movie more than once). I’m not sure what that says about me.
However, as I’m getting old, some of the books I read 30 or 40 years ago might benefit from a new examination.
Unless I missed it, I can’t believe my two favorite books haven’t been mentioned yet:
The Godfather
The Princess Bride.
Both excellent books.
The Princess Bride book is especially awesome; in that William Goldman interrupts the story (much like they also did in the movie) so that he can interject his thoughts. It’s comedy gold.
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